Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-17-Speech-3-181"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Barroso, President-elect of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041117.9.3-181"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-11-17-Speech-3-1822
lpv:speaker	lp:Hans-Peter Martin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Liste Dr. Hans-Peter Martin - Für echte Kontrolle in Brüssel (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3,3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-22--2007-03-13)3,3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2004-11-23)3,3 substitute; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President of the Commission, those who are not blind to Brussels’ shortcomings are rubbing their eyes and saying that the mountain of the EU has laboured and brought forth a new Berlusconi mouse. Nothing else has changed; we now know that there are serious things lurking in the appointees’ pasts. What does Mrs Kroes want to take decisions about? How careful must Mrs Fischer Boel be if she is not to take the wrong decisions? As for Mr Kovács, he has apparently, in the space of nine days, become a tax expert, having previously known nothing of the subject. If such a thing is possible, then any European citizen, soon perhaps even a woman, could take a fortnight to become Pope. This is no way to go about things; an opportunity is being squandered. There is no transparency, and the Commission is more neo-liberal than any of those that have gone before it. What a pity that there are so many in this House whose courage has deserted them; there has not, in fact, been that much change as yet. We must once again take it as read – indeed, we already know – that the party leaders and Heads of Government, be they Schroeder or Blair or anyone else, have been on the phone, not only to you, Mr Barroso, but also to the widest possible variety of their colleagues. You yourself, Mr President of the Commission, spoke of yourself as going on a blind date, as you could not choose people for yourself. That is a bitter pill for Europe to swallow; it is a structural defect, and so it is that the very opposite of what you, Mr President of the Commission, said is true: it is not by our endorsing you now that democracy is strengthened; it is strengthened if we continue to show ourselves opposed to such practices."@en1

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